Page 3: Historical Events In March - 13

1855  On March - 13 percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)   

1858  On March - 13 maximilien Luce, French painter   

1859  On this day in history john Brown 1800-1859 brings first black slaves to Canada from the US via the Underground Railway; he is later made famous in a song, John Brown's Body, about a raid he made on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.   

1859  On March - 13 ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)   

1860  The birth of Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer on this day in history.   

1861  Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers on March - 13.   

1862  On this day in history vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer   

1865  On this day in history uS Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service   

1865  On March - 13 jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers   

1868  Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial on this day in history.   

1868  On this day in history senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial   

1869  Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law on this day in history.   

1872  Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist on March - 13.   

1875  On this day in history maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)   

1878  On this day in history oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match   

1878  On this day in history oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match   

1879  Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60 on March - 13.   

1881  In Russia, Czar Alexander II is killed near the Winter Palace by a hand-bomb thrown by a member of the "People’s Will," a militant wing of the Narodniki movement, which advocated socialist reform in Russia and the elimination of the central government on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer   

1881  Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62 on this day in history.   

1883  On March - 13 enrico Toselli, composer   

1884  Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins on March - 13.   

1884  On March - 13 the birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist   

1884  US adopts Standard Time on March - 13.   

1884  Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit) on March - 13.   

1885  On this day in history in Victoria British Columbia, the Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants, later ruled unconstitutional   

1886  On March - 13 henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist   

1887  On March - 13 chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs   

1887  On March - 13 carlos Isamitt, composer   

1888  Great Blizzard of 1888 rages on March - 13.   

1890  On this day in history michael Taube, composer   

1890  On March - 13 henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67   

1892  Alec Rowley, composer on March - 13.   

1894  On this day in history j L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate   

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1372  Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407) was born on this day in history.   

1548  On March - 13 birth of sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole   

1599  On this day in history birth of johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint   

1615  Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700) was born on March - 13.   

1683  John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744) was born on this day in history.   

1696  On this day in history birth of louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal   

1700  James Kent, composer was born on March - 13.   

1700  On this day in history birth of michel Blavet, composer   

1202  Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies on this day in history.   

1271  Death of Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235) on March - 13.   

1395  On this day in history death of john Barbour, Scottish poet   

1516  On March - 13 vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60   

1558  Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies on March - 13.   

1569  On March - 13 lodewijk Condé, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies   

1573  Death of Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman on this day in history.   

1604  On March - 13 death of arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)